Back in the old days, the 'Fix It Again Tony' 124 Spider was the Italian MGB... http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/fiat/90395/new-fiat-124-spider-first-spy-shots
I've been looking for a 'new' car for a while now and nothing has taken my interest. As you say, they all look the same euro-box bland styling.And no it will just be an over proced Jap knock off!
No wonder many have little to no interest in "Modern" cars as they are all just the same. In fact until one get close enough to read the badge it could almost be any make. At least the 60's and 70's cars were individual.
I always thought it was 'Fix It Again Tomorrow'.Back in the old days, the 'Fix It Again Tony' 124 Spider was the Italian MGB...
The salesman confirmed what has been reported for the last seven or eight months, the MG3 Turbo fitted with the 1.4 GM unit will be available forth quarter this year. Same engine will be available with a dsg gearbox for the MG6. The GS will be launched at same time.
they'll have to have the new engines by September as after that all new cars have to be euro6 compliant and i am pretty sure there current range of engines aren't. So they need to have the new euro6 engines out by then.
Not the first Kia sports car, have they forgotten about the Kia Elan ?http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/kia-promises-first-sports-car-2020
Kia promises first sports car by 2020
Kia's new sports car will take inspiration from the GT and GT4 Stinger concept cars, and be on sale by the end of the decade
by Richard Bremner
5 August 2015
Kia will launch its first sports car “by the end of the decade”, according to UK boss Paul Philpott.
Details of the new model are limited, although Kia says it will draw from the knowledge it has gained from developing the widely admired GT and Stinger GT4 concepts. The GT is an elegantly aggressive four-door, rear-drive coupé, while the Stinger is a more compact coupé in the mould of the Toyota GT86.
The new car will be a model in its own right rather than being based on another Kia and will be “affordable”, according to Philpott. He added that it will need to be sold worldwide to achieve viable production numbers.
Such a move means the US market will influence its format heavily, although Philpott expects the model to contribute usefully to Kia’s ambition of selling 100,000 cars annually in the UK before the decade is out. This year the company expects to sell slightly more than 80,000 vehicles here.
Philpott also confirmed that a B-segment crossover, designed to compete with Nissan’s Juke, will arrive within two years. Kia previewed a possible crossover with the Provo concept at the 2013 Geneva motor show. “We’ll do it right and be a force to be reckoned with,” said Philpott.
Following a relatively slow period of new model introduction - the latest Sorento is the brand’s only new model in 2015 - there is set to be a spate of new models from Kia as several models approach the end of their six-year life cycles.
Key among these will be the replacement for the best-selling Sportage crossover. It will appear early next year, preceded by the UK launch of the new Optima saloon revealed at the New York motor show in April.
The next Picanto will arrive in 2017, but no date has yet been set for the debut of the new sports car.
(Bloomberg) -- BMW AG said sports cars may never find as many buyers as they did in the market’s glory days before the global recession.
“The sports-car market is roughly half of what it used to be,” Ian Robertson, BMW’s head of sales, said in an interview at the manufacturer’s headquarters in Munich. “Post-2008, it just collapsed. I’m not so sure it’ll ever fully recover.”
In Europe and North America, the car’s role as a status symbol has diminished, with sport-utility vehicles and their smaller crossover cousins becoming more popular. In China and emerging markets, Robertson said, hot weather, pollution and a penchant for chauffeur-driven limousines have made sports cars less popular among well-heeled clients.
Despite the downturn, selling a car built for speed and performance -- priced at a relatively high margin -- is an important part of building a brand’s allure. That’s why BMW, known for turning out sporty luxury vehicles, is teaming up with Toyota Motor Corp. to share development costs on a new mid-size sports car, Robertson said. The duo said last week their project has moved to the concept stage after completing a feasibility study. They declined to provide details.
Auto markets in Europe and North America, where cars like Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz SLK and Audi’s TT are popular in the sports segment, are recovering slowly after the financial crisis sent demand to the lowest in decades. Annual growth in excess of 10 percent in Asia has helped offset the declines.
Sales Slump
Combined global sales of the TT, SLK and BMW’s Z4 peaked at about 114,000 in 2007 before slumping 45 percent by 2010, according to research company IHS Automotive. Demand in China has remained negligible, while global sales are expected to reach about 72,000 vehicles by the end of the decade, IHS said.
“The market has been diluted with more offerings designed to appeal to the kind of demographic traditionally associated with these models,” Tim Urquhart, a London-based analyst at IHS, said in an e-mail. “Young, urban upwardly mobile professionals are now able to buy a much wider range of lifestyle vehicles other than sports cars.”
BMW is boosting sales of its other vehicles even as the sports segment stagnates. Global deliveries for the brand gained 9.3 percent in the first 10 months of the year to 1.47 million cars, putting the group as a whole, including its Mini and Rolls-Royce nameplates, on track to sell more than 2 million vehicles this year, the company said today.
Automakers tend to look for partners to limit costs of developing new technology and small-scale vehicles. Other tie-ups include Daimler’s cooperation with the Renault SA-Nissan Motor Co. alliance, which has been gradually expanding beyond projects such as new versions of Daimler’s Smart city cars and Renault’s Twingo subcompact.
BMW, the world’s biggest maker of luxury cars, and Toyota agreed in 2013 to collaborate on the underpinnings of a vehicle, the most visible project within a broader partnership that also includes cooperation on fuel cells and lightweight technology.
BMW is “taking very progressive steps with this now, and we’ll see how it goes in the months ahead,” Robertson said.